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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Reader poll: What are Blazers' chances, down 2 to 1?

Once again, the Blazers get blown out in their first home game of the playoffs. What do you think the final outcome of the series with Phoenix will be?

Posted at 9:36 PM | Permalink

Comments (11)

The Big Mo(mentum) is all going towards the Suns. Portland is doing what Portland does best.

Posted by Harry | April 22, 2010 9:45 PM

When you get beat by an underachiever like Jason Richardson, it's pretty disheartening.

Dallas over Phoenix, and then it's going to be a Kobe-LeBron finals, folks. Now's the time to start working in the yard, gardening, tennis...

Meanwhile, Durant wins a big one in his playoff home debut, while Greg Oden talks on the radio about his mother doing his laundry. So very Sam Bowie.

Posted by Jack Bog | April 22, 2010 9:51 PM

Two games of watching them stand around on the defensive while the suns run around them and shooting bricks on the offensive end tells me it's over. Nate's fault or loss of Brandon's leadership? I'm not sure what it is other then pitiful.

Posted by Darrin | April 22, 2010 10:08 PM

I folded my watching of the game with five minutes left in the first half. It was just to painful to take any more. The Blazers could've won this series with Kevin Durant...Even a healthy Oden and/or Przybilla wouldn't have changed the outcome, though.

I do have to commend Paul Allen and crew for picking up Cameby and Howard. and this gives some hope for the future altho the NBA will always have a bias favoring the Lakers and some big city in the East.

Posted by Bob Clark | April 22, 2010 10:51 PM

Blazers overachieved this year, esp. under the circumstances as they unfolded through the season. They thrilled everyone the last week of the regular season and made a big splash in the opening playoff game. Be grateful. And you can't go far in a basketball tournament with your #1 player o-u-t. Roy needs the time to completely heal rather than have some delusional knuckleheads try to rush him back. "In all, 13 Blazers missed a combined 311 regular-season games, second only to the Warriors this season. Only Miller and forward Martell Webster played in all 82 games." -- Fox Sports (10 mins. ago).

"Even a Blazers dancer missed a month with a shoulder injury." -- Hard-Luck Trail Blazers Trying to See the Basket as Half Full
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/sports/basketball/18blazers.html

Who are they going to draft this time around?

Posted by Mojo | April 22, 2010 11:19 PM

I feel sorry for Paul Allen. He's got all these wonderful toys, but they always seem to break down at an inappropriate time.

Posted by daveg | April 23, 2010 6:03 AM

It's hard to say that I'm looking forward to watching the next game. They've just been getting off to horrible starts in the first quarter and it never really gets much better from there. Maybe they'll surprise us and turn this thing around, but it would be the stuff of legends if they do.

Posted by Usual Kevin | April 23, 2010 8:46 AM

I think I like Camby better than Przbilla or Oden - certainly bettern than Oden, actually. But I'd rather have Blake and Outlaw back now - the Blazers need guys who can score and those two were more reliable scorers. Blazers are toast...

Posted by dg | April 23, 2010 10:36 AM

Was at the game, so had to suffer in person. Several observations:

Rudy is lost - despite the fourth quarter shots. Martell looked lost in the first half - no moving - but then again, no one threw him the ball to shoot. Anytime the ball was low, Blazers seemed afraid to shoot, but given that they had a hard time getting any calls in the paint, made sense. And yes, Richardson hit some wide-open shots, but he also hit several with defenders so tight they could have determined boxers v. briefs.

Also, I was sitting next to a Salem-area fellow who is also a basketball official - clear that very few calls will be made against Stoudamire - traveling or fouls. Watch his feet - he likes to shuffle them like an eight year old boy on the carpet in the winter, trying to statically shock his sister.

Posted by umpire | April 23, 2010 10:46 AM

As I write this, the total tally is Suns 107, Blazers 16 -- which closely resembles last night's halftime score.

Posted by Roger | April 23, 2010 11:30 AM

it's going to be a Kobe-LeBron finals, folks.

How surprising. That's was sells tickets. Probably set up that way from the beginning.
Man, I hate the NBA.

Posted by Jon | April 23, 2010 12:20 PM

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Road Work

Miles run year to date: 54
At this date last year: 50
Total run in 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269

The Blazers have been shellacked twice in a row now by the Phoenix Suns. How do you think the series will end up?
	Suns in 5 games
	Blazers in 6 games
	Suns in 6 games
	Blazers in 7 games
	Suns in 7 games

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